ABSTRACT
We present our research innovation in enterprise visual inspection for civil infrastructures. We train and adapt AI foundation models to work on high-resolution images collected by drones for detecting and segmenting very small defects in large areas and with high precision. Further, we provide support to reliability engineers by measuring defects with computer vision and by providing additional information that is required to assess damage severity and plan maintenance interventions. We provide access to our research innovation through our SaaS IBM Inspecto. IBM Inspecto is a research-industry platform developed by IBM Research that leverages foundation models and advanced computer vision methods to fully digitalize the visual inspection process, accelerating and improving accuracy in critical inspection tasks. In this work, we present visual inspection results on the Storebælt Bridge in collaboration with Sund & Bælt, as well as on other applications.
